Old Lecture, New Student

Post processing was always a part of my basic photography seminar when I was still teaching at my old studio in Greenhills.

I would begin each lecture by giving tips on how to set up Adobe Photoshop to make it run more efficiently. I would also teach my students how to integrate Adobe Bridge into their post processing workflow to enable to make them work faster.

A lot of photographers now favor Adobe Lightroom over Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Bridge. I have a subscription to Adobe Lightroom CC that was bundled with my Adobe Photoshop CC subscription. But old habits die hard and I still prefer to rely on Adobe Bridge CC to sort and view my files.

I was working late in Shutter Café last week. Someone in the table beside me recognized me and greeted me. He was a fellow cyclist. I had forgotten that we had met before.

I noticed that he and his friend were hard at work post processing images. I asked if it would be okay if I tweaked their Adobe Photoshop settings a little to make it run faster.

I was soon teaching one of them how I used Adobe Bridge to view, sort files, run batch actions, rename files, label files, filter and the other things that I used to teach my students and that I still do today.

It was a good feeling. Sharing what I know and sharing it with a fellow photographer.

Today, I am teaching someone to take over for me at our large format printing service when I am not around. I´m still giving the same pointers about using Adobe Bridge.

Maybe I should start using Adobe Lightroom CC more. But there are parts of my workflow that I can only do using Adobe Photoshop CC.

I have shown disdain in the past for photographers who claim that they are either incapable of learning something new or are resistant to new knowledge.